Tarot Consultation

Historically, Tarot Consultation or Reading, has been a path for self study and exploration, as well as directed self education and discovery. Tarot Salon provides consultations from the Tarot Arcana. Tarot, in our tradition, is neither cartomancy nor fortune telling. Rather, Tarot is a doorway into a deeper understanding of the Self — not just the past, or the future, but this very present moment. And so, here you are now.

A Tarot consultation, depending on the intuitive moment, might use or incorporate sections of the Tarot, including the 22 Major Arcana. For instance, the major arcana correspond to the Hero’s Journey of Joseph Campbell, and the Tree of Life in the Kabbalah.

Joseph Campbell and Tarot — Stephen Gerringer writes that, according to Campbell, his introduction to the tarot occurred in 1943, as friend and mentor Heinrich Zimmer discussed the symbolism of playing cards. Zimmer died unexpectedly soon thereafter, and Campbell didn’t give tarot much thought until 1967, when the subject came up during a Q & A session following a lecture at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.

A few days later Campbell contacted his friend, Richard Roberts, an authority on tarot. Roberts then offered to do a reading for Joe. The results were compelling enough that Campbell purchased three separate Tarot sets (the Marseilles deck, an Italian deck, and what today is known as the Rider-Waite-Smith deck).

His exploration of their imagery prompted a collaboration with Roberts on a book about the symbolism of the tarot (Joseph Campbell and Richard Roberts, Tarot Revelations, 3 – 4). (“A Bolt from the Blue” in MythBlast newsletter, September 04, 2023).

Joseph Campbell in his study